Hints and tips:
...A pinboard is covered with typed-out texts from writers including the science fiction authors Octavia Butler and Ursula Le Guin and the feminist social scientist Donna Haraway....
...Will Butler-Adams, managing director of bike maker Brompton, has halted EU retail exports for January, although he hopes to resume “imminently”....
...“It can look at a narrative description and see if that complies with the billing guidelines,” says Donna Haddad, a senior legal counsel in IBM’s Watson group....
...The Goldfinch , by Donna Tartt, Little, Brown, RRP£20/$30 Tartt’s last book was published in 2002, so a new novel is an event....
...Notes from my butler are sealed with gold wax, and the bathroom amenities are, well, profligate. In such environs, you cannot help but feel the prima donna. And then there are the flashbulbs....
...Spirits must be plentiful and come in a variety of colours and viscosities – and, for that extra special je ne sais quoi, employ a Bar Butler to display the selection....
...“Social media generates site traffic,” says Liam Butler, Conran Shop’s e-commerce manager....
...Ask Donna Karan, Bruce Willis, Keith Richards (whom I spotted drinking at the bar) and the other celebrities who have built sumptuous villas alongside – but at a safe distance from – the resort....
...Luxury is in the extras – an infinity pool and gym – and the staff includes a ranger, tracker, butler and chef shared among four suites....
...Donald Maxwell executed her butler’s duties crisply. Alessandro Corbelli made a sly old puppy-dog of Sergeant Sulpice....
...It is the home of the feisty prima donna and the £250-a-bottle champagne....
...Other property-backed stocks also gained including Enterprise Inns, up 2.8 per cent to 665½p, and Mitchells & Butlers, 4.4 per cent higher at 736p....
...Mitchells & Butlers jumped 7.3 per cent to 497½p after a consortium led by financier Robert Tchenguiz confimed it had made an approach for the pub group and had financing in place for a bid of 550p a share...
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